Subject: Re: non executable stack
To: Nathan J. Williams <nathanw@wasabisystems.com>
From: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
List: tech-kern
Date: 02/02/2003 11:37:05
At 11:35 AM 2/2/2003, Nathan J. Williams wrote:
>manu@netbsd.org (Emmanuel Dreyfus) writes:
>
> > - i386 is unable to have a non executable page which is writable.
>
>Readable. On i386, readability of a page implies executability. I
>think the same is true of arm32, m68k, mips, sh3, vax, and x86-64.

Nope, on VAX executable is different than readability.


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